Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Committee Takes Stock Of Child Care And Protection During COVID 19 Second Wave

Supreme Court's Juvenile Justice Committee, in coordination with UNICEF held a review meeting on Wednesday to take stock of actions taken by various states on child care, protection and wellbeing of the children during the second wave of the COVID-19. The Committee in its meeting chaired by Justice Ravindra Bhat who is the Chairperson of the Committee, deliberated upon the...

No Material Produced By Centre To Show Increasing Delhi's Oxygen Allocation By 210 MT Will Reduce Other States' Quota :Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to strictly observe its earlier direction of providing 700 MT of medical oxygen to the National Capital Territory of Delhi on a daily basis and affirmed that there shall be no reduction in the allocation and availability of medical oxygen.Observing that the Centre is under an obligation to ensure a daily supply of 700 MT to meet the existing...

COVID- 'There Should Not Be Any Effort To Protect Influential Persons': Jharkhand High Court Warns Agency Investigating Black Marketing Of Life Saving Drugs

The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday warned the concerned officers, entrusted with curbing black marketing of medicines during Covid-19, from protecting any influential person involved in such illegal activities. Noting that investigation in this regard is not being conducted in the direction, a Division Bench comprising of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan...

Plea Seeking Setting Up COVID Vaccination Centres In RWA Offices: Delhi High Court Asks Govt To Consider Representation

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the Delhi Government to consider as representation the plea seeking setting up vaccination centres in RWA Offices, Residential Societies and NGO Compounds to ensure minimum exposure to covid for people going for vaccinations.A division bench comprising of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh asked the authorities to take a...

BREAKING : Supreme Court Constitutes National Task Force To Formulate Methodology For Scientific Allocation Of Medical Oxygen To States, UTs

The Supreme Court has constituted a 12 member National Task Force to formulate a methodology for scientific allocation of liquid medical oxygen to all the States and Union Territories in order to deal with the dearth of oxygen supply amid the second Covid wave.A division bench comprising of Justice DY Chandrachud and MR Shah constituted the Task Force which will be at liberty to draw upon...

Patna High Court Seeks State's Response On Availability Of Medicines, Oxygen Cylinders And Black Marketing

The Patna High Court on Friday sought response of the State Government on the aspect of availability of covid medicines, oxygen cylinders in rural areas especially in the district hospitals and also about the incidents of black marketing in the State. The division bench comprising of Chief Justice Sanjay S. Karol and Justice S. Kumar also went ahead to direct the State Government to ensure...

'Some Prisoners Might Not Be Willing To Be Released Due To Their Social Background': Supreme Court Issues Directions To Prison Authorities For Protection Of Inmates From COVID

The Supreme Court has asked the authorities to be considerate to concerns of inmates in relation to extraordinary cases of prisoners who might not be willing to be released from prisons during covid in view of their social background and the fear of becoming victims of the deadly virus.The bench made this observation while issuing a set of directions for release of certain categories of...

Freedom To Report Court Hearings: Citing Supreme Court's Recent Judgment, Plea Filed In Gujarat HC Seeking E-Access To Media

In view of the Supreme Court recent Judgment [Election Commission of India v. MR Vijaya Bhaskar LL 2021 SC 244] upholding the freedom of media to report the oral observations and discussions made by judges and lawyers during a court proceeding, an application has been moved before the Gujarat HC seeking e-access to media. The application has been filed by Advocate Amit Manibhai...

COVID-19- Doorstep Vaccination Of Elderly, Disabled And Others Who Can't Approach Vaccination Centres: Orissa HC Seeks Centre's Response

Dealing with a petition seeking judicial intervention to ensure vaccination for senior citizens with ailments and for those who are physically challenged and are unable to approach the vaccination centres, the Orissa High Court on Thursday (May 6) adjourned the matter for hearing on May 12 in light of the Supreme Court's order dated April 30.COVID19-Plea In Supreme Court Seeks To Ensure...

Reservation In University Cannot Be Applied By Treating All Professors Of Different Subjects As One Cadre : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has quashed a recruitment notification issued by the Kerala University on the ground that it treated professors of different departments as one unit to apply reservation for communities.A single bench of Justice Amit Rawal held that reservations had to be made subject-wise and each post in a particular discipline has to be treated as a single post. The bench struck...

Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Ex Gratia Payment To Families Of Judicial Officers, Court Staff Who Lost Their Lives Due To Covid 19

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking ex gratia payment to the kith and kin of judicial officers and members of the court staff in tune of Rs. 1 Crore and 50 Lakhs respectively who have lost their lives due to covid 19 virus. The plea also seeks direction to declare late Kovai Venugopal and Kamran Khan, judicial officers who recently succumbed to covid 19, as frontline...

Administer Covid-19 Vaccines To Antyodaya Card Holders, Persons Falling BPL & APL In Equal Ratio: Chhattisgarh High Court Tells State

The Chhattisgarh High Court on Friday expressed displeasure at the State Government's action of completely halting the Covid-19 vaccination drive with respect to persons in the age group 18-45 for deciding vaccination norms. "We do not appreciate the action of the State Government in totally stopping the vaccination to the residents of the State coming within the age group of above...